THE SPORT SCAN – Turkey’s Zeynep Sönmez reacted perfectly as the young girl suffered from the heat in Melbourne.
Surprising scene during the first round of the Australian Open. A ball girl fell victim to illness in the middle of a match between Turkey’s Zeynep Sönmez, 112e world, and the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, seeded number 11.
While she was in the return of serve position, Sönmez saw the ball girl, located near the referee’s chair, go backwards and fall to the ground, before immediately getting up to take her place. But feeling that her fall was not accidental, the Turk asked to stop the game to inquire about the state of health of the young girl, who she then helped to land on the edge of the court. And in the end, by chance or karma, it was the 112th in the world who won.
